[AERNet] Internet with JAWS

[Pzip1234 at cs.com]

Heidi,
I had the same problem last year when I was teaching high school students with cognitive delays. I found a website http://www.gardenofpraise.com/leaders.htm 
which has bibliographies of famous people. I created a set of 20 questions that could be easily answered by having the student go directly to the bibliography we were using. They had to listen to my questions using JAWS, go to the website, then listen to the information to answer the questions. They also learned to toggle back and forth between the sites, and to copy and paste. 
There are many famous people from which to choose--from former presidents to Helen Keller to Tiger Wood.
If this isn't clear, feel free to contact me and I will try to clarify.
Hope this helps.
Pamela F. Zipperer
Coordinator, 
Smokey Powell Assistive Technology Center
Georgia Academy for the Blind
Macon GA



"Henshaw, Heidi" <hhenshaw at ric.edu> wrote:

>I am teaching a high school student to access the internet using JAWS. He is significantly cognitively delayed, and has difficulty processing everything JAWS reads to him. He has done very well memorizing keyboard commands, and understands the layout of the keyboard. 
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>Are there any websites you have used that may be more simple in content, as well as information JAWS will have to read, while still keeping the interest of a high school student.
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>I have tried going to websites that might interest him, such as Harry Potter or Disney World, but there is so much information on the page, and he is not really catching any of it as it is read by JAWS. Even if we use the CTRL key to stop JAWS from reading the page, there are still so many links on the page, it is quite difficult for him to navigate.
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>As always, any help would be greatly appreciated!  He is definitely a very motivated student!
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>Heidi
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